Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary, Historical
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Author: Andrea Barrett ISBN: 9780393347210
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: September 17, 1999
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Andrea Barrett
ISBN: 9780393347210
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: September 17, 1999
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

From the author of the 1996 National Book Award Winner Ship Fever.

Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic, Andrea Barrett focuses on a particular expedition and its accompanying scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells. Through his eyes, we meet the Narwhal's crew and its commander—obsessed with the search for an open polar sea—and encounter the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we see the women left behind in Philadelphia, explorers only in imagination. Together, those who travel and those who stay weave a web of myth and mystery. And finally they discover—as all explorers do—not what was always there and never needed discovering, but the state of their own souls.

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From the author of the 1996 National Book Award Winner Ship Fever.

Capturing a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth century romance with the Arctic, Andrea Barrett focuses on a particular expedition and its accompanying scholar-naturalist, Erasmus Darwin Wells. Through his eyes, we meet the Narwhal's crew and its commander—obsessed with the search for an open polar sea—and encounter the far-north culture of the Esquimaux. In counterpoint, we see the women left behind in Philadelphia, explorers only in imagination. Together, those who travel and those who stay weave a web of myth and mystery. And finally they discover—as all explorers do—not what was always there and never needed discovering, but the state of their own souls.

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